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Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Oh My! 4 Tools for Picting in the Classroom

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Cathie Norris and ElliotSoloway, university professors studying how much time today’s youth spend with text-based materials vs. image-based materials, “ estimate that 90 percent of K-12 classroom time in the U.S. They are on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat before they even step into our classrooms. “If

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We Might Be at the End of the Free Ed Tech Era

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” Unfortunately, what may be next is the same as all the other tech industries: an over reliance on the big 5 (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon) Well, what is Imagine K12, and why do they have to do with education? Imagine K12 is a startup incubator out of California based on education.

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

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She used to teach social studies, but is now the K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach at Rock Valley Community Schools in Iowa. ” She put together a list of favorite digital tools for the social studies classroom and shared them during an edWeb webinar. ClassTools.net is a good tool for high school.

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